Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-07-21
THE HOT SUNDAY.
Orer One Hundred Deaths From the
Effects Of Heat Reported.
Chicago Furnished the Largest List of
Fatalities--Eighteen i'm Cincinnati,
and Eleven In ST. Louis.

CHICAGO, July 17.-The hot weather of
Saturday was intensified to-day and there
was much suffering throughout the city.
From n. m. until p, N. the mercury
ranged from 80 to 1903. The records of
the police department for to-day shows
that not less than forty five persons were
stricken down and eighteen have already
died. Saturdays list was appalling. The
total number of cases cared for by the
police department was over one hundred,
and thirty haye proved fatal. When the
complete record is made it will be UMPIRE
cedented in the history of the city. Such
a degree Of heat has not been experienced
in this city for thirty years.
A wind storm, followed by a light rain,
passed over this city at 7 o clock this eve
ming, and at 10 o'clock tonight the tenn
perature has dropped to 70. AT II o'clock
tonight the latest returns show that sixty
two persons have died either in or on the
way to the various hospitals in this city
since Saturday morning. These deaths
were all the direct result of sunstroke or
heat prostration. A number of patients
in the hospitals are in state of coma to-
night, and the physicians consider their
cases hopeless. At the county hospital
the physicians and nurses have been work
ing almost increasingly for thirty-si
hours. The crush far exceeds that fol
lowing the Haymarket riot.
The effect of the weather on those per-
sons who have not taken precautions to
withstand it, and on people debilitated by
excuses, was almost as disastrous to-day
as on Saturday and many of those affect
ed on Saturday have since died. The
cause is said to be sunstroke in every in
stance, but it was not necessary that the
person succumbing to the heat should
have been exposed to the direct rays of
the sun. The intense warmth of the at
mosphere indoors or in the shade, was
sufficient to effect with fatal power those
who had wcaked their system by over-in-
diligence in intoxicants, or were addicted
to liquor drinking.
CINCINNATI, July 17.--There were re-
ported up to midnight forty-eight cases
of sunstroke in the city to-day, of which
eighteen were fatal, and at the midnight
hour there were numerous additional calls
for patrol wagons for new cases. The
mercury on the street during most of the
day ranged from 100 to 1914, and the air
was very still. People tonight are stand
ing, sitting and even sleeping on the side
walks. and the hospitals are filling up
with patients.
PHILADELPHIA, July 17.-With the
single exception of July 8, 1873, to-day
has been the hottest for over thirty years.
At 9 O. clock this afternoon the thermome-
ter registered 1902 degrees in the shade,
being Just one degree less than that of
July s, 1878, and one ard quarter de-
grees greater than yesterday. Up to q
late hour tonight about thirty cases of
sunstroke were reported, fourteen of
which resulted fatally.
JOLIET, H., July 17-Fourteen con-
victs at the prison were overcome by the
heat to-day. and two died. The thermo-
meter registered 100 at daybreak this
morning and 113 at the middle of the day.
The heat is simply terrific. Four citizens
were Frustrated.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 1.-THE heat here
was intense to day, the maximum by the
signal service thermometer being 100 40,
record which has not been equalled
since July. 1881. Four cases of prostra
ton occurred, two of which resulted
fatally.
ST. LOUIS, July 17.-This city was Wis
tied with another day of torrid heat and
the suffering was very great. The Their
mometer on the street registered 104 in
the shade and eleven fatal cases of sun
stroke and fifteen of prostration were re-
ported. The warm breeze continues and
tomorrow promises to be still more OPP
pressive.
PrrTsBURG, Pa, July 17.-Thls was
the hottest and at the same time the dryest
Sunday ever known here. Through the
efforts of the Law and Order society
every saloon in the city was closed tight
For several hours to-day the thermome-
ter registered 1902 in the shade, the high
est point reached in years. Six fatal
cases of sunstroke and fully score of
prostrations are reported. A number of
sudden deaths occurred which may be
attributed to the torrid spell. This af-
ternoon about three o'clock, the dead
bodies of VIM. Corrigan and John Jen-
mis- were found in their rooms in John
Dolan's tavern, on Grant street The men
were not addicted to excessive drinking
and the cause of their death is shrouded
in mystery.